He found them on his doorstep – a small, unassuming bouquet of yellow roses. A silent insult. "Damn it," Mark muttered, kicking the doorframe as he entered his apartment. He didn’t bother to take off his coat, instead flinging it onto the floor. The air in the apartment suddenly felt thick, suffocating. His jaw tightened. He glared at the roses, their cheerful color grating on his nerves. He grabbed a pair of scissors and savagely began snipping at the stems, the fragrant heads falling to the floor.

Emotion: outraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.96 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.32

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion outraged. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 outraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the outraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the outraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.467
0.334
🤬0.327
aggravated0.323
0.312
Suppressed:
H-0.315
☺️-0.286
optimistic-0.278
adventurous-0.262
मुस्कुरा-0.260